OK, so I'm not trying to hit up the political parties. I am a librarian. And the President of the United States said it. He used the "L" word. That's right! That son-of-a-gun said LIBRARIES!!! WOOHOO! FREE PUBLICITY, folks. I am including the statement and the links to the ALA blog here, and I will apply my new RSS skills to include a feed as well. So here it is!:
You probably heard it for yourself, but last night President Barack Obama did it again. He said “libraries.” At his first prime-time press conference since taking office, he addressed a nervous nation about unemployment, emphasizing that “the single most important part of this Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is the fact that it will save or create up to 4 million jobs, because that’s what America needs most right now.”
More than 90% of the jobs created in the plan will be in the private sector, he said, and “they’re not going to be make-work jobs but jobs doing the work that America desperately needs done, jobs rebuilding our crumbling bridges, repairing our dangerously deficient dams and levees, so that we don’t face another Katrina.” And then he added, “They’ll be jobs creating the 21st-century classrooms, libraries, and labs for millions of children across America.”
Read more about it at the today's American Libraries blog!
Don't forget to check out the first time (12.03.2008) he used that "nasty" word! =-)
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I missed the speech last night but while listening to the recap on the radio this morning Andy and I both cheered when he said the "L" word!
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing about it is that I went online the night of the press conference, saw that it was going on, and had that eerie feeling that it was important for me to watch it. Did I? NOOOOO! Of course not! I'm still cheering, though. GO TEAM LIBRARY! (OK, I wasn't a Cheerleader in high school. Now's as good a chance as any!)
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